the machine age

I went to the U. of Florida main library to work day before yesterday, the first time I’ve been there since its renovation last year, and it’s amazingly changed!  Escalators?  (Kids today.)  A 24-hour Starbucks?  (Yay for 24 hours, not-so-yay for the chain.)  Having the library itself open for 24 hours, Monday through Thursday, puts it above MIT.  And on the second floor there are dozens of carrels where you can close the door and,  I don’t know, work on your applied gynecology lab.

But one thing that truly croggled my mind – why have I never seen this before? – was the night-owl students’ dream vending machine:  every manner of stationery.  Pens, pencils, notebooks, 3X5’s – even a blisterpack calculator and, for $11, an 8GB flash drive!   I’ve gotta send a picture of this to the MIT library.

Joe